Thread: "I shot the Sheriff"

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So, I'm laying in the sack this morning about 5 am. Wifie has left for Seattle to spend her week
at the clinic leaving me to tend to the Farm.
About that time I hear "boom boom boom" and then another dozen booms.....
fuggin' duck hunters, I think.
But this time it's really loud.
I look out the window and my Horses are franticly running the fence line in a panic.
I pull on some pants and run out on the porch and see three guys back in the middle of my pasture just
shooting like it was some kind of war.
They had dogs and were being tasked to "go fuggin get um" by these guys at the top of their lungs...Nice!
Since I could hear them, I assumed they could hear me and yelled to get off of my property.

They completely ignored me and kept on shooting. Ear plugs maybe?

"That does it", I thought and and called 911.
The operator asks me if I have posted "no hunting".
"Yes" I reply and add that the property is also fenced.

So, 10 minutes later the Sheriff arrives and by this time they have moved over to the neighbors property
and are blasting away.
Sheriff again asks me what direction they are shooting and just as I'm about to answer we here
pop pop pop....and more pop pop and quack quack quack ..."go fuggin' get um" and then
splat splat splat....what the....splat.....the Sheriff yells "run for the house" and a bunch of buck shot falls all around
us hitting me and the Sheriff.
Didn't hurt but I'm glad I wasn't looking up.

The guy says, "that's enough of that $hit" "that's reckless endangerment" and tells me to go in the house and heads down the dike road which is the only access to the back fields.
Now I'm looking from the second story with some field glasses and there's two cruisers parked on the dike road and the cops are talking to the two hunters.

And thats why we don't allow hunting on our property.
Dumb red necks.....

DT

It's a common problem...whether it be hunters, hot rodders, cruisers, bar patrons, or whatever......a few idiots give the entire sport a black eye. Although I am pro-hunting and pro-gun, when I go down a dirt road and find a bunch of nose-pickers shooting at bottles and old stoves, I get mad and want to ban gun sales to the idiots. When I see a ricer squealing the tires in a parking lot near pedestrians, i want to ban cars....but then I realize that they are a minority and there are many people who dont abuse their hobby.

The enviro nazis use these instances to promote their agenda....and the press loves to report the "news".

Those clowns on your land should be banned from hunting for life.....or at least be sentenced to community service picking up shotgun hulls for a year.

mike in tucson

When I was in WI, some of my farmers lost cattle because the hunters could not tell the difference between a black and white cow and a deer.

Follow up;
Sheriff just called me and they went over and grabbed two of the three hunters and turns out one
didn't have a hunting license.
They are both being charged with reckless endangerment as well as several other fines for license and
for the one guy without the license hiding his gun in the bushes.
Turns out the sheriff used my field glasses to good advantage. He counted three guns.

Why couldn't those bozo's just come to my door and ask permission to hunt on my property?

I've gone rock chuck hunting before and just wrote the farmer a short note asking permission.
Never had a problem.
Guy just cell called me and said OK and the two best dates for him and just asked me not to shoot any
live stock.

Reasonable Guy.

Now, the Sheriff has filed charges and confiscated everyones weapons.
That had to hurt.
Wonder if I can file a complaint for getting shot even though I didn't get injured.
Kinda pumped a weeks worth of adrenaline into my system. Bummer!!!!

DT

Heck DT what about your horses, did you manage to settle them down quickly and if one of them had been hurt, I think I would of been filling those three idiots with buckshot myself from a distance where not to kill but close enough for them to realise the error of there way. At least the Sheriff arrived and acted quickly.

Heck, I'd sue!!! At yer age, that much adrenalin could do permanent damage!!!!!

When I was still farming, had some irresponsible idiot fired his 30-06 at a deer.... He was on my land which was posted for no hunting. Ok, no big deal so far, just some town dudes who think they have a right to trespass cuz they're in pursuit of Bambi... Became a problem when the round fired came through the kitchen window, through a wall, then out the picture window in the living room.... then they wonder why property owners don't want them out in their fields!!!! The next season, my brother-in-laws dog got shot...they left him laying there wounded, not dead. Nephew found him that evening and had to take him to the Vet and have him put to sleep.... There went another 400 acres of prime hunting land that is now posted...As with anything, only takes one idiot to screw it up for everyone else.

BTW, both properties are still open to bow hunters.....

yeah i agree with the minority ruining it for everyone.

I'd be paying a visit to the Sheriff's office and file charges of attempted murder....or whatever max charge the Sheriff will let you file.

I have signs posted no hunting, no trespassing and they still put up stands on my 43 acres. Even if you didn't have a sign what makes them think they can climb over the fence? If they shoot a deer running towards your property some think they have the right to pursue it onto your property. When the 911 person asked if you had signs posted does that make a difference for them to come onto your property with guns?

I've seen a Dog lying dead in front of a deer stand; someone shot a Cat that we took in as a stray with an arrow. We have one Cat with over thirty buck shot pellets in his back side. I can't wait until the shooting stops each year, people come from Chicago to the county with walking talkies now cell phones. I was on my property making sure there were no hunters and it was already dark in the evening, a hunter on the fence line said I was harassing him that’s when I saw the dog was shot. I looked at the dog and the hunter in the tree stand on my neighbor’s property that farms the field next to my property “said I better step over the line.”I could have taken that as a threat but with the 9mm in my pocket I let it go. I know the deer population is getting worse each year and we have the cars to prove it. My wife refuses to buy a new car because of the deer that she has had contact with, some hit the side of the fenders, and some hit the hood. Three cars with deer damage to prove it. My thoughts would be to tranquillize them to thin them out take the meat to nursing homes. The guys that I see hunting with their new trucks do not seem like they are lacking for food when I see what it cost to get prepared to hunt.
If they stay on designated property do not shoot in the direction of homes or animals then do it right with respect.

Richard

We had a tragic case a couple of weeks ago,where a young school teacher and her partner were camping in a Department of Conservation reserve,,and as she was cleaning her teeth,early evening,at dusk,some guys drove in nearby,hunting[?]and one guy on the back of his 4wd pickup,mistook her for a deer,or something and shot her,,didnt think to make sure of what he was looking at,just shot her,with her partner next to her...Total bl**dy dick..So now he is being done for manslaughter..Stupid,stupid..

Originally Posted by lamin8r

We had a tragic case a couple of weeks ago,where a young school teacher and her partner were camping in a Department of Conservation reserve,,and as she was cleaning her teeth,early evening,at dusk,some guys drove in nearby,hunting[?]and one guy on the back of his 4wd pickup,mistook her for a deer,or something and shot her,,didnt think to make sure of what he was looking at,just shot her,with her partner next to her...Total bl**dy dick..So now he is being done for manslaughter..Stupid,stupid..

makes you cringe doesnt it!

with gun laws the way they are over here the problem isnt so bad.
we've had the occasional weekender come onto the property at work ( a quarry with plenty of rabbits a nd foxes running around).

Originally Posted by spikeo

makes you cringe doesnt it!

with gun laws the way they are over here the problem isnt so bad.
we've had the occasional weekender come onto the property at work ( a quarry with plenty of rabbits a nd foxes running around).

Yeah,well,the gun laws over here arent exactly lax either,but it only takes one dropkick to wreck it for all the others..Ya gotta be an absolute TWONK to drive in to a reserve/camping area in the trees and take a shot at something without identifying it first...

I used to deer hunt but it just got too dangerous. Many others feel the same way. My case - I got shot at and luckily missed. After levering off a full magazine of my 30-30 into the ground in the shooters general direction, I suspect he doesn't hunt any longer either. Our problem is that we are only about 150 miles from NYC and those characters as well as the New Jersey folks show up most every weekend and have ruined it for us Upstate locals. With fewer of us hunting, there are more and more deer being hit by vehicles. A couple weeks ago one was killed on the road behind my house, yesterday, one on the main road a mile or so away. Then there is that cracked wheel arch molding with the hair stuck in it on my F350......

You're extremely lucky Dogtag! It gives me great satisfaction to tear down the tree stands that kept reappearing on my posted property! I heard gunshots one evening and went to investigate and found a pickup parked in the middle of the field. I simply called the Fish and Wildlife division here and they came out quickly! Caught 2 guys dragging out a doe! Told the warden they had permission from a guy named Gary..... not my name! I find that most of the culprits are city folk who just want to shoot at anything. On another note, my oldest son was in the 9th grade and one of his classmates went hunting with his father. Dad got out of his stand and was walking towards something when sonny hears a noise and fires blindly into the brush....Yep, hitting dad! Fortunately, only a small wound, but could have been much worse!!..CR

Well, I got a call from the Sheriff again who was arranging to pick up my "statement" of the
shooting and he tells me that he told the guy we were sprayed by falling buckshot and the guy
looks surprised and says, "from the sky"?
The Sheriff admits he lost it a bit as the guy goes on to explain that they weren't even shooting in
that direction and then proceeds to tell the Sheriff that the wind must have blown it that way.

Now, I AM scared to go out on my deck in the fall.
Could be my horses were being pelted as well which would explain why they were acting crazy
and running the fence line all morning.
Bottom line, though, I wasn't hurt. Getting hit with falling buckshot is like somebody taking a big
rubber band and snapping it against your skin.
Didn't cause a wound but really got my attention. Glad I wasn't looking up.....

Fuggers!!!

DT